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90% of Science Is Lost: Frontiers' revolutionary AI-powered service transforms data sharing to deliver breakthroughs faster. Frontiers, the open-science publisher, is tackling this problem with the launch of Frontiers FAIR² Data Management, the world's first all-in-one, AI-powered service for research data. Designed to transform how data is shared so it is reusable and credited, it brings together curation, compliance checks, AI-ready packaging, peer review, an interactive portal, certification, and lifetime hosting in a single workflow — ensuring that research funded today delivers faster breakthroughs in health, sustainability, and technology tomorrow. FAIR² extends the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) with an open specification that ensures every dataset is AI-ready and responsibly reusable by both humans and machines. Frontiers FAIR² Data Management is the first implementation, launched at a time when research outputs are growing exponentially and AI is reshaping discovery — turning principles into practical infrastructure for real-world impact at scale. [Full Announcement].

The next chapter for Frontiers: to the open access tipping point. Frontiers announces a strategic reorganization and team resizing to focus on researcher-centric, technology-empowered teams to provide a first class publishing experience and secure sustainable quality publishing at scale. This change marks the next chapter in our journey to make open access the default science publishing model. These insights prompted a major reorganization in Frontiers throughout 2023 to form multi-expert teams empowered with AI technology to provide the full spectrum of publishing services tailored to our more than 2,000 academic communities. We also optimized our operational model and management framework to easily adapt to changes in the market. In the current market conditions, we are increasing efficiency further by proposing to significantly resize our workforce of about 2,000 employees across 23 countries to about 1,400 employees. Together with the management and operational changes made in 2023, this makes Frontiers a leaner and more agile organization, with enhanced financial resilience amidst market shifts. [Full Announcement].

Frontiers implements new policy to counter Authorship-for-sale. Frontiers has published a new author policy designed to help prevent cases of “authorship-for-sale” among its research publications, a term used throughout the industry which refers to the unethical practice of buying or selling authorship on research papers. [Full Announcement].